A sidelight on history: Being the letters of James McHenry [to Thomas Sim Lee, written during the Yorktown campaign, 1781

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19 페이지Yesterday an advance party of our army, consisting of about 700 regulars and
some riflemen, fell in with the enemy's main body between Green Spring and
Jamestown. A loose firing was commenced by the riflemen about 4 o'clock in the
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25 페이지Next morning, we advanced to Bird's tavern, and a party of the army took post at
Nowel's Mill, about nine miles from the British camp. The 6th I detached an
advance corps under General Wayne, with a view of reconnoi- tering the enemy's
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27 페이지But it is enough for the glory of General Wayne and the officers and men he
commanded, to have attacked the whole British army with a reconnoitring party
only, close to their incampment, and by this severe skirmish hastened their retreat
over ...